Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers
Creation-Date: 2004-04-23
Number: 04-045/3
Author-Name: Jos van Ommeren
Author-Email: jommeren@feweb.vu.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: Faculty of Economics and Econometrics, Vrije Universiteit Rotterdam
Title: The Commuting Distribution
Abstract: In this paper we analyse the commuting distribution from a job search perspective.We have examined under which conditions the commuting distribution is unimodal which isone of the stylised facts of commuting. It appears that a necessary condition is that space istwo-dimensional. Furthermore, one of the following ingredients is sufficient: on-the-jobmobility, spatially-differentiated search or heterogeneity ofjobs. Residential mobility does notappear to explain the shape of the commuting density function as we observe it.
Classification-JEL: R20; J64
Keywords: commuting; search; mobility
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